Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
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Viking was to be an ambitious adventure game that was to cast you as a Viking warrior (e.g., Erik, Leif, or Thorwald) with the ultimate goal of living a worthy life and earning a place in Valhalla. Rather than following a strict storyline or mission structure, the game would encourage freedom, exploration, and role-playing, allowing you to create your own saga. Continue reading
A short entry for a game by Rowan Crawford. It isn’t clear what kind of game it was, though the name was influenced by Armalyte and was a very complex project that Rowan felt would take years to complete. After … Continue reading
Our next entry came up by chance when a contributor spotted our video at Zzap Live 2025, and mentioned working on a game called Drive (or Drive where the “i” was replaced with an actual eyeball). The game was pitched … Continue reading
One of the more intriguing stories from Atari’s twilight years is Snow White, a licensed title that was developed for the Atari 2600 under Disney’s watch but never officially released. Originally designated CX26107, the game never appeared in Atari’s catalogues or in gaming magazines at the time, and only internal product lists hinted at its existence. That is, until a surprise prototype surfaced in 1999. Continue reading
A short entry for a title highlighted to us thanks to Pirate Dragon. This was an economic strategy game related to the French Ministry of Finance and was released for the Thomson computers, as well as an SC-3000 version too. … Continue reading
Our next entry into the archives is a title that we hadn’t been aware of until it suddenly turned up during an archive search. We believe that the game was to be called ShelShock, and was written by Finlay Munro as part of Finetime Software. It may have been possibly a working title, and no story is known for it. Continue reading
2006 Rockpool Games / So Games Platform: Mobile J2ME A short entry for a Java Platform mobile de-make of Glover, the 1998 puzzle platformer game originally by Interactive Studios. The J2ME version was to be a 2D-based version of the … Continue reading
1992 Virgin Games Platform: SEGA Master System One of the things most tragic with planned games is when magazines of the time featured them heavily, showing off good looking screenshots of the game in question. This would be the case … Continue reading
Whilst doing some preservation work, we chanced across a couple of binary files which are a slightly earlier build of Elite on the NES by Imagineer. Out in the wild are builds 2.8 and 5.2 which are dated 04 March … Continue reading
A short and strange entry that has been highlighted to us thanks to Joachim Froholt, who had a reply to a thread about mastering C64 games from a Blake Senftner. This is not the same game as by Bill Hogue. … Continue reading
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